Two films in and Jordan Peele finds himself in an unusual position for a maker of scary movies. Usually, horror movie audiences are on tenterhooks waiting to find out what the menace is and if it stacks up. If it's something surprising, original or just not too obvious they will probably go home happy. In his films, they are waiting to see what the socio-political allegory will be, and if that stacks up. Probably for the foreseeable future that is going to be something Trump based but here it definitely isn't too obvious and is probably more original and surprising than you'd expect.

For Peele, this is his mile-taken-for-an-inch-given film. The wild, zeitgeisty hit of Get Out was such that it must've earned him a fair amount of leeway for his follow up. Within reason, it's a free hit, a chance to indulge some of his wilder fantasies. In Us, he goes with Invasion of the Body Snatchers crossed with Funny Games. The evening after a day out at the beach a family find themselves menaced by a doppelganger family in their rented holiday home.

Usually, Body Snatchers and their invasions are rather indirect menaces, surreptitiously taking over until they have reached the tipping point. Not Peele's lot: they stand in the driveway and barge their way into the house. Possibly this is because they are Mike Yarwood level body snatchers: they have more or less got the look but can't do the voice.

I have some personal reservations: the bulk of the action is a home invasion thriller, which is never my favourite and there are way too many scissors for my liking. As a scare meister, Peele doesn't offer anything particularly original but his major jumps are effective and delivered with humour. The filmmaking seems to me to have gone up to another level compared to Get Out.

Ultimately though the film will be judged on how you react to the revelations of its audacious third act, which is not quite like anything you've seen before. It could be that it'll all be too much, too weird for audiences but the film suggests that Peele is the real deal.